Rugby -- Australian Wallabies, 1958

5 images. Rugby -- Australian Wallabies, 24 March 1958. Des Connor; Ron Harvey; Ed Purkins; Jim Lenehan. "Sports". (Sleeve reads: SP 12289).; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Jensen. Date: 1958-03-24. Assignment: Australian Union Rugby -- Wallabies. 94-95: Des Connor Scrum half dive passing behind Scrum. 54-55: Ron Harvey (back). 72: Ed Purkins (tackling) Jim Lenehan receiving pass".; Supplementary material reads: "From: Vic Kelley, ASUCLA News Bureau, University of California at Los Angeles. Release: Monday, March 24, 1958. The routing Wallabies, the Australian equivalent of an all-America football team, play their only Rugby match in Southern California when they take on UCLA's eager Bruins on Spaulding Field on the Westwood campus tomorrow at 3 p.m. The Wallabies have successfully toured the British Isles, France and Western Canada before coming to California for a four-match series. They will play the Bruins first and then go north to meet California, Stanford and an all-star collegiate squad. The 30 team members, picked by the Australian Rugby Union as the best amateur ruggers in the country, represent every phase of life in the 'Down Under' continent, ranging from graziers, farmers, clerks and students to engineers, lawyers, architects and business executives...".